A man formerly from Baltimore was arrested Wednesday after police said he tried to get back into the U.S. after fleeing to Pakistan to escape an indictment on software piracy charges.

Naveed Sheikh, 31, was arrested at Dulles International Airport, two weeks after being indicted on charges of illegally copying and distributing more than 100 copyrighted commercial software programs, such as Quicken, Microsoft Money and Adobe After Effects.

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The indictment alleges that Sheikh received more than $265,000 for pirating the software from 2004 to 2008 and selling it on the Internet. The copywritten works are estimated to be worth millions of dollars.

Sheikh will have a detention hearing Friday in Virginia. No date has been set for his appearance in Maryland.